In Dublin, Easter Sunday is the main day, with a parade through the city center and the reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic by a contemporary Defence Forces officer outside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street. President Michael D. Higgins will lay a wreath at the historic site that was the headquarters of the rebel forces during Easter Week 1916.

On Easter Monday, the day the Rising officially began, separate, coordinated ceremonies in Dublin and throughout Ireland at the historic sites of the Rising will commence at exactly 1:15 p.m., the time the first shots of the Rising were fired at Dublin Castle in 1916.

At Irish America, we published an entire issue in commemoration of the Rising and the events leading up to, surrounding, and following the 5-day rebellion. Check out the links below for the complete story, including a tour of the key Rising locations in Dublin, the American influences, and profiles of the leaders.

As we wrote in our introduction to the issue, the Rising commemorations haven’t always been as critical as this year’s.

“There was no probing questioning, no critical examination, no scrutiny of the revolution’s motives,” Notre Dame professor Tom Bartlett says in Jason Kelly’s excellent piece, “A Strike Against the Empire.”

This year, however, we called the issue “a launch pad for our readers to begin their own investigations into the Rising and it’s legacy – a space to learn new information and a space to raise and posit questions.”

There’s no better week to do that than this one. Click the links below to start exploring, and let us know in the comments what you find.